English literature Archives

English literature

Something Amis

by Rachel Cusk,

From the introduction to a reissue of Martin Amis’s novel London Fields, which was published in November by Vintage, in Britain. The curse of Englishness is something whose magnitude we…

Heart of snarkness

by Harper’s Staff,

The decline of gossip

by Joseph Epstein,

Great books for dummies

by Harper’s Staff,

A flapping of scolds

by Vince Passaro,

The literary establishment descends on T.S. Eliot

Beyond Berlitz

by Ch°ien Hsiao,

The prince of finesse

by James Wolcott,

Nine hundred pages of criticism prove that John Updike is no air-dancing dandy

The gracehoper and the aunts

by Marvin Mudrick,

The legacy of Cyril Connolly, literature's greatest enthusiast

Ed Buzz’s new music writers’ club magazine

by Alex Heard,

The art of sunbathing

by Paul Fussell,

On discovering modernism at the beach

The computerized Ulysses

by Hugh Kenner,

Establishing the text Joyce intended